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The Congressional strengthening of the Senator's position would have one supremely important mechanical effect. It would consolidate his hold on party machinery in the Nation's Capital. The Arizonan's lieutenants were ruthless in seizing control of that machinery; they may be just as tough in holding onto it...
Palmiro Togliatti will be remembered as the Communist leader who came closer than any other to seizing power for the Reds in Western Europe - and failed.
In the early days of Islam, when conquering Arab armies swept across Christian Syria, mosque making consisted of seizing Christian churches, closing their western entrances, opening new doors to the north, and praying facing south across the aisles toward Mecca. A few decades later, Moslem caliphs began to raise the...
Under Kansas' anti-obscenity law, the state attorney general was justified in seizing 1,715 such "nightstand books" from a paperback dealer in Junction City. Last month, however, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the seizure unconstitutional. Also voided were Ohio's ban against an allegedly obscene French movie...
And in Miami Beach, Scranton delivered perhaps the most forceful, sense-making Republican statement so far about U.S. policy toward Castro's Cuba. Said he: "Our national policy has become one of reacting to events rather than one of seizing opportunities. In few places can we see present American...